- Serialization outreach targeting Granta, Paris Review, BOMB, n+1, Electric Literature, Literary Hub
- National review and feature outreach to print publications (NYTBR, New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, Boston Globe) and online (NPR, Literary Hub, Buzzfeed, The Millions)
- Targeted outreach to publications spotlighting translated literature: World Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Latin American Literature Today
- Virtual events featuring author and translator; Promotion at/events pitched to PEN World Voices Festival
- Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); publisher’s e-newsletter to booksellers, reviewers, librarians
A narrative and poetic experience in which body, memory and delirium clash to recompose the world and, therefore, the identity of the self.
Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for an encephalogram, which will diagnose her cerebral dysrhythmia, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind and follows the trail of her suicidal other half.
Written in brief chapters and fragments, Divided Island is a nonlinear narrative best read as a poetic experience. A collection of scenes, moments, memories, dreams, and images gradually coalesce into the story of a life told from a singular location: a way of perceiving and describing the world, guided by dysrhythmia. From 2022's recipient of the acclaimed Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz literary prize comes a novel that profoundly explores one woman's grief and fractal experience of the passage of time.
